Helge Lund is Chairman of the Board of BP Plc and Novo Nordisk AS, and serves as Operating advisor to Clayton Dubilier & Rice.

Helge Lund served as chief executive of BG Group plc, UK, from 2015 to 2016 when the company was acquired by Shell. Prior to that Mr Lund served as President and CEO of Equinor ASA (formerly known as Statoil ASA) from 2004 to 2014. From 2002 to 2004 Mr Lund served as President & CEO of Aker Kvaerner ASA, an industrial conglomerate with operations in oil and gas, engineering and construction, pulp and paper and shipbuilding. Prior to this Mr Lund has also held executive positions in Aker RGI ASA, an industrial holding company, and Hafslund Nycomed, an industrial group with business activities in pharmaceuticals and energy. He has worked as consultant for McKinsey & Company and has served as a political advisor for the parliamentary group of the Conservative party in Norway.

Mr Lund is a member of the boards of P/F Tjaldur, Faroe Islands, and Belron SA, Luxembourg. Furthermore, Mr Lund is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group.

Helge Lund served as a member of the Board of Directors in Nokia (2011-14) and Schlumberger (2016-18).

Mr Lund has an MA in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics & Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from INSEAD business school in France.

A Norwegian national, Helge Lund is married with two children.